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Steve Bratt

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My Running History: 1972
to Present (but mainly the old days)

One problem with the Web is that the history it
captures grows more incomplete for times before the Web was
first adopted (1990+) and for times before the creation of any
particular Website on a particular subject. CoolRunning.com, a key
racing calendar and results site, goes back to 1997. I've
been very hopeful that the Boston Athletic Association would
input their Boston Marathon results going back to the start in
1897. Alas, the BAA's complete
results go back to 2001, with only summaries
available for the other 100+ years. (the complete results
would provide an invaluable dataset for comparing results from
year to year, correlating with weather, the economy, world
events, etc.). A rare gem, the Mt.
Washington Road Race Website has results going back to
1936.

I'll try to use this page to build a record of
high/low-lights of my more ancient running history ... before I
forget. Most of the more recent race results can be found
on CoolRunning, Athlinks,
my
blog posts since early 2012, and individual race sites.

I've been running regularly since the summer of
1972 (amazingly, 40+ years), and have in my basement paper
records logging my running from about 1980. Though I am a
geek, I continue to log my daily miles, workout descriptions and
locations, weather, races, and the rare social events in paper
logbooks. Not really sure why this is, but it likely a
combination of continuity, ease and a desire to keep that part
of my life as uncomplicated and non-technical as possible.